said mayor and board may establish, to secure the payment and collection of the annual interest to be reserved as aforesaid. § 10. If the purchaser of any lot shall neglect or refuse to execute the duplicate deed, as required by the preceding section, the board of aldermen may again sell such lot, under the conditions and provisions of this act, and if it shall not then sell for as much as was bid therefor at the previous sale, the said board may recover the difference, with costs, by action of debt, before any justice of the peace of the township in which the defendant may reside, in the name of the mayor, aldermen and citizens of St. Louis, against the person neglecting or refusing as aforesaid. § 11. The mayor and board of aldermen are empowered to fix the time and place at which sales shall be made under the requirements of this act; to define the time and manner in which the annual interest to be paid by purchasers of lots, shall be collected, by what officer it shall be collected, and the compensation that he shall receive for his services in collecting. § 12. Before any sale shall be made under this act, it shall be the duty of the said board to cause notice of the time, place and terms of sale, to be published for at least four weeks successively, prior to the day of sale, in all the newspapers published in the city of St. Louis. § 13. The mayor and board of aldermen aforesaid are empowered to settle or compromise on the most advantageous terms, with all persons having claims within the common conflicting with the claims of the city of St. Louis. The mayor and board of aldermen are hereby em powered to grant in fee simple without any warranty, to the county of St. Louis, out of said common, a tract of land not exceeding in quantiy one hundred acres, to be used by the county court of said county for the establishment of a poor house, under the provisions of act, entitled "an act to provide for the erection of a house for the employment and support of the poor in the county of St. Louis," approved, January the first, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. § 14. The said mayor and board are hereby authorized to perform all such other acts as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, according to the true intent and meaning thereof. § 15. This act shall be deemed and taken as a public statute, and may be read and used in all courts as other public laws, without proof. APPROVED, March 18, 1835. CITY ORDINANCES. DUTY OF REGISTER. An ordinance prescribing the duty of the register of the city of St. Louis. SEC. 1. Register to keep a registry of appointments and commissions of officers-to cause ordinances to be printed and superintend printing of the same to keep records of obligations and papers of the board of aldermen. 2. Register to receive no part of fines accruing to the city. 3. Register to examine licences and report all offenders against the revenue laws. 4. Office of Register, where kept, how long kept open, and his compensation. § 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, That it shall be the duty of the register to keep an exact registry of all appointments and commissions of every officer of the corporation; to cause to be printed the ordinances passed by the board of aldermen, and approved by the mayor, within one month after their passage, and to superintend the proof sheet thereof; to keep, and preserve, whole, safe, and undefaced, all notes, bonds, evidence of debt, records of the board of aldermen, or official acts of the mayor which may come into his possession, and to deliver the same whenever required so to do by the mayor and aldermen, or their successors in office. § 2. Be it further ordained, That the said register shall not be entitled to receive for his own use, any part of the penalties or forfeitures which may be recovered from any offenders against any of the ordinances of the city. §3. Be it further ordained, That it shall be the duty of the register to examine the licences of all keepers of retail groceries, liquor, and such other stores, shops, traders or occupations, as are now, or hereafter may be subject to taxation, for the use of the city; and should it appear to the said register, that the person or persons keeping such store or stores, shop or shops, or exercising any trade or occupation which may be taxed by the authority aforesaid, have not complied with the ordinances of the city for their regulations and government, the said register is required to cause suit to be institued against all such offenders without delay. § 4. And be it further ordained, That the office of the register shall be kept in the town hall, and that the furnishing thereof shall be paid out of the city treasury. The register is further required to keep his office open every day (Sundays excepted) from the hour of eight o'clock in the morning, until the hour of four o'clock in the evening, from the first day of March to the first day of December, and from nine o'clock in the morning until four o'clock in the evening, from the first day of December to the first day of March. He shall receive for his services as register, &c., the sum of four hundred dollars, to be paid in equal quarterly payments, out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. This ordinance to take effect from and after the passage thereof. An ordinance dividing the city of St. Louis into wards, and regulating 3. Judges and clerks of elections. how elected, their qualifications and duties register to provide election rooms and give notice of election. 4. Polls to be opened-votes to be counted and abstract returned to the hoard of aldermen. Abstract of votes to be returned to register, who shall give certificates of election to the persons elected. 5. 6. Compensation of Judges and clerks. 7. Abstract of votes for mayor to be certified to board of aldermen-who shall cause the mayor elect to be notified thereof. 8. Judges undertaking to act as such and failing, to be fined, except în certain cases change of judges and clerks to be certified on poll books, and elections thus held declared valid. Vacancy in the board of aldermen, how filled. 9. 10. Non resident voters shall be sworn-rejected votes to be noted. 11. Tie in the election of mayor to be decided by board. 12 Election of mayor contested, proceedings. 13. Election of aldermen contested, proceedings. 14. Persons disqualified performing the duties of mayor or aldermen-how punished. 15 Election of mayor contested previous to his being declared elected by the board, proceed ings. 16. Repealing clause. 1. Be it ordained by the mayor and board of aldermen of the city of St. Louis, That all that part of the city which lies south of Elm streets shall constitute one ward, and shall be denominated the "First Ward." All that part of the city which lies north of said Elm street and south of Pine street, shall constitute one ward and be denominated the "Second Ward." All that part of the city which lies north of said Pine street and south of Laurel street and Washington Avenue, shall constitute one ward and be denominated the "Third Ward;" and all that part of the city which lies north of Laurel street and Washington avenue, shall constitute one ward and shall be denominated the "Fourth Ward." § 2. Be it further ordained, That at all general elections for city, officers, each of the above designated wards shall be entitled to elect three aldermen from amongst the citizens residing in their respective wards, having the requisite qualifications. § 3. Be it further ordained, That the board of aldermen shall appoint two respectable citizens, householders, as judges of election in each ward, who shall before entering upon the duties of their appointment, take an oath faithfully and impartially to conduct such election according to law: and the said judges shall choose two suitable persons in their respective wards to act as clerks of said election, and in case any of the judges so appointed shall fail to attend or refuse to act, the remaining judge of the ward in which such failure or refusal may happen, shall have power to fill such vacany: and if both the judges in all or any of the wards shall fail to attend or refuse to act on the day of any election, general or special, the electors present at the place appointed for holding the same, may appoint two judges to con. duct such election, who shall possess the qualifications aforesaid; and it shall be the duty of the register to provide a suitable and proper room in each ward to hold the same election in, and to give public notice thereof at least ten days before any election for the purposes afore. said. 4. Be it further ordained, That at all elections for city officers, the polls shall be kept open from nine o'clock in the morning until six o'clock in the afternoon of the same day and no longer: and upon closing the polls, and not before, the judges shall immediately proceed to count the votes, and shall make out, or cause to be made, an abstract of the votes given in their respective wards for the office of may or, setting forth at full length the names of the persons voted for, for mayor, and the number of votes given to each person for that office, and the judges of election of the several wards shall, between the hours of eight o'clock in the afternoon of the day succecding any such election, meet at the office of the register, and compare their abstract of votes for the office of mayor, and shall therefrom make a general abstract, which shall be signed and certified to the board of aldermen by at least one of the judges of election in each ward, and the said judges of election present shall seal up said general abstract or cause the same to be done in their presence, and shall forthwith deliver the same to the register, to be by him laid before the board of aldermen at their next meeting. 5. Be it further ordained, That the judges of the several wards shall also make out, or cause to be made, a fair abstract of the votes given for each person as alderman within their respective wards, certified under their hands and attested by their clerks, setting forth at full length the names of the persons voted for as aldermen, and the number of votes given to each person for that office, and shall return the said abstract and poll books of all elections within three days after any such election shall be held, to the office of the register; and it shall be the duty of the register, without delay, to deliver or cause to be delivered to the persons who shall have had the highest number of votes therein for aldermen, a certificate of their election; and shall also return to the board of aldermen the abstract and poll books aforesaid at their first meeting thereafter. 6. Be it further ordained, That there shall be paid to each of the judges and clerks of all city elections, the sum of two dollars and fifty cents, in full compensation for their services at each of said elections: and it shall be the duty of the register to certifiy the claims of the judges and clerks aforesaid, to the auditor, who shall thereupon issue his warrant upon the treasury therefor. § 7. Be it further ordained, That it shall be the duty of the register to lay before the board of aldermen, at their first meeting after the election for mayor shall have been held, the abstract of votes which shall have been delivered to him by the judges of election, as aforesaid, and the president of the board of aldermen shall open, or cause the same to be opened in their presence, and thereupon the board of aldermen shall, in such manner as they may, from time to time, by resolution or otherwise, order or direct, proceed to ascertain who is elected mayor of this city; and shall immediately thereafter cause the person so elected to be notified thereof; and on its being satisfactorily made known to them that the person so elected has quali |